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Pardon my interruption but I searched for 'use' or 'usage' and came up empty. Anyone can tell a regular guy why it's a big deal and what are the applications? t

by keyle 8y ago

Pardon my interruption but I searched for 'use' or 'usage' and came up empty. Anyone can tell a regular guy why it's a big deal and what are the applications? ta

dbqpdb 8y ago
It seems to have a very real potential to help us learn a great deal about superconductivity.
DuskStar 8y ago
Research. It's a relatively simple setup with relatively easy to control properties, that does something really fucking weird. It offers a window into the behavior of other poorly understood superconductors, and that offers the eventual chance of higher temperature or higher magnetic flux superconductors. Either would be revolutionary - room temperature superconductors have obvious applications, but higher flux superconductors would allow better, smaller, cheaper stellarators and tokamaks - opening the door for fusion power.
steve76 8y ago
Buckyballs have mass, yet exhibit wave interference. We can make them bigger and bigger, and focus them as if they classically popped into existence. I wonder if it holds up on very large scales, like if we can cover an atmosphere, or a star in one. What would that mean? Elements now are just variations of carbon structures? And could we at that level build a virtual one? Develop some exotic particle in the atmosphere, get really precise at moving it around, and model the entire Earth, Solar System or Galaxy as interactions as fullerenes? Just thinking.
- steve76 8y ago
  Another thought is medical applications. Imagine if we get good enough to shoot a beam of them like a chest x-ray or a mri. The wave collapses everywhere except inside artery blockages or tumors, and you have non-invasive treatments and therapeutic imaging.
EugeneOZ 8y ago
Superconductors = flying cars. Finally they are working on something useful!
- Haga 8y ago
  Better make watertight social control devices if you want to hand everyone alien nose hair trimmers that can level city's. Same for the flying cruise.. Cars. Some exponential tech, always seems to be 30 years away from legacy humanity. Thank you moderators.
- EugeneOZ 8y ago
  Downvoters, first link from search: https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/research/groups/amks/superconductivity/levitation/ https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/research/groups/amks/su... Morons.
aspaceman 8y ago
>>> The stakes in the race to come up with easier to make, better performing, higher-temperature superconductors are huge. Aside from the oft-evoked vision of levitating trains, reducing the energy loss in electric power transmission would boost economies and sharply cut harmful emissions around the world. Qubit fabrication could suddenly become practical, perhaps ushering in the rise of quantum computers. Even without superconductivity, ordinary computers and other electronics could get a huge boost in performance versus cost from twistronics, due to the fact that entire complex electronic circuits could in theory be built into a few sheets of pure carbon, without needing a dozen or more complexly etched layers of challenging materials common to today’s chips. “You could integrate wildly different properties of matter into these circuits right next to one another, and vary them with local electric fields,” said Dean. “I can’t find words to describe how profound that is. I’d have to make something up. Maybe dynamic material engineering?” >>>

by keyle 8y ago

Pardon my interruption but I searched for 'use' or 'usage' and came up empty. Anyone can tell a regular guy why it's a big deal and what are the applications? ta

dbqpdb 8y ago

It seems to have a very real potential to help us learn a great deal about superconductivity.

DuskStar 8y ago

Research. It's a relatively simple setup with relatively easy to control properties, that does something really fucking weird. It offers a window into the behavior of other poorly understood superconductors, and that offers the eventual chance of higher temperature or higher magnetic flux superconductors. Either would be revolutionary - room temperature superconductors have obvious applications, but higher flux superconductors would allow better, smaller, cheaper stellarators and tokamaks - opening the door for fusion power.

steve76 8y ago

Buckyballs have mass, yet exhibit wave interference. We can make them bigger and bigger, and focus them as if they classically popped into existence. I wonder if it holds up on very large scales, like if we can cover an atmosphere, or a star in one. What would that mean? Elements now are just variations of carbon structures? And could we at that level build a virtual one? Develop some exotic particle in the atmosphere, get really precise at moving it around, and model the entire Earth, Solar System or Galaxy as interactions as fullerenes? Just thinking.

steve76 8y ago
Another thought is medical applications. Imagine if we get good enough to shoot a beam of them like a chest x-ray or a mri. The wave collapses everywhere except inside artery blockages or tumors, and you have non-invasive treatments and therapeutic imaging.

EugeneOZ 8y ago

Superconductors = flying cars. Finally they are working on something useful!

Haga 8y ago
Better make watertight social control devices if you want to hand everyone alien nose hair trimmers that can level city's. Same for the flying cruise.. Cars. Some exponential tech, always seems to be 30 years away from legacy humanity. Thank you moderators.
EugeneOZ 8y ago
Downvoters, first link from search: https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/research/groups/amks/superconductivity/levitation/ https://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/research/groups/amks/su... Morons.

aspaceman 8y ago

>>> The stakes in the race to come up with easier to make, better performing, higher-temperature superconductors are huge. Aside from the oft-evoked vision of levitating trains, reducing the energy loss in electric power transmission would boost economies and sharply cut harmful emissions around the world. Qubit fabrication could suddenly become practical, perhaps ushering in the rise of quantum computers. Even without superconductivity, ordinary computers and other electronics could get a huge boost in performance versus cost from twistronics, due to the fact that entire complex electronic circuits could in theory be built into a few sheets of pure carbon, without needing a dozen or more complexly etched layers of challenging materials common to today’s chips. “You could integrate wildly different properties of matter into these circuits right next to one another, and vary them with local electric fields,” said Dean. “I can’t find words to describe how profound that is. I’d have to make something up. Maybe dynamic material engineering?” >>>